And an informal, unscientific Reporter-News Facebook poll registered 67 of the 103 respondents approving of Trump's first year in office, slightly lower than the percentage that voted for him in Taylor County.

One such resident still very much a Trump supporter is county Republican Party Chairman Winston Ohlhausen. He said he's been happy with everything he's seen from Trump so far.

"I started out a Cruz fan and supported Cruz in the primaries," Ohlhausen said. "But once those were over, I liked what Trump was saying. I became a staunch Trump supporter. Generally, I've loved everything he does. I think it's so wonderful to have a president who you know loves America and puts American interests first versus what we had under the previous administration."

It was the best of times ...

Whether you support or dislike the occupant of the Oval Office, it's impossible to say the first year of Trump's presidency was boring.

Supporters and detractors both took note of the seemingly endless string of events that took place over the course of the last 365 days.

Those on his side point to his Supreme Court nomination this past spring and December's tax reform as particular victories of his first year.

Neal Coates, chairman of Abilene Christian University's department of political science, prefaced his remarks about this past year with a quote by Charles Dickens.

“'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,' to quote Dickens," Coates wrote in an email. "There is growing list of campaign promises kept as Trump has tried to bulldoze through the bureaucracy in Washington, push congress along, and stand up to dictatorial regimes. But his New Yorker brashness and vulgarity has turned off many Americans, and there is the possibility of the Republicans losing the House of Representatives in this year’s elections."

Neal Gorsuch's April swearing-in to the Supreme Court was a victory for conservatives, noted Coates, as was the naming of Gen. John Kelly as White House chief of staff. So, too, was his Trump's selection of Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Hardin-Simmons University political science professor Dan Allen said.

McMurry University professor Paul Fabrizio, meanwhile, also noted Trump's dealings with trade partnerships like the North American Free Trade Agreement, his decision to re-think American involvement in the Paris Climate Agreement, the re-thinking of the Iran nuclear deal struck under former President Barack Obama and the numerous lower Federal court judge appointments made by the president as worthy notes on history.

Ohlhausen said one of Trump's biggest victories came in his strengthening of the military. From action taken in Syria to budget decisions, he said the American military has the ability to backup what it says, whether dealing with Russia, North Korea or any other foreign entity negotiating.

"Finally we have somebody in the presidency who means what they say and appears willing to back it up," Ohlhausen said. "He's done a great job for veterans. He's strengthening the military. We can now back up what we say."

Then there's the tax reform passed late in 2017. Trump's pro-business approach has led to large financial growth in the country, Coates said in his email.

"Trump is seemingly bringing in a new age of energy and improving wealth for Americans," Coates said. "Trump’s pro-business attitude has led to three quarters of growth above 3 percent."

It was the worst of times

There's plenty for supporters to like. But, those who dislike Trump and his administration also have plenty to remember.

For Fabrizio, one of the most telling problems in Trump's White House is the political inexperience. And it's most glaring when it comes to his personnel decisions, especially early in his term.

"Running on a political 'outsider' theme made for good politics but it has created real problems once he had to govern," Fabrizio wrote in an email. "The President is the chief executive of the U.S. Government. He has at his command more than two million civil servants and about two million military personnel. While the president gives the orders, he needs people in the federal bureaucracy to carry them out. Despite a flurry of presidential executive orders, for the president to make changes to the system he needs to have people in place in various offices to implement his presidential directives."

The constant chaos that was the White House in the first year also caught the eye of Sammy Garcia, a State Farm Insurance agent in Abilene.

Garcia, a Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, said it was a challenge trying to keep his head above water with news coming almost every day.

"I kept thinking, 'OK, here's where he turns, this is where he'll be presidential,'" Garcia said. "He’d do a little something and we'd say that he's gonna stop talking now and get down to business. I remember thinking that this is what I expected, that it wasn't going to be that bad. But it’s like the election never stopped happening. He solidified everything Democrats thought about him before — that he was unqualified, crass, that he didn’t have any core values."

Flynn's firing was particularly troubling to many Democrats, including Garcia. That his name is now tied directly into a special investigation led by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller into possible Russian collusion with the Trump presidential campaign in 2016 adds to the negativity.

Allen, the Hardin-Simmons University professor, said that was one of his biggest concerns about Trump's first year.

"The worst things have been his unwillingness to confront the Russians regarding their interference in elections in the United States and Europe," Allen wrote in an email, "and his failure to provide unifying leadership after the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville."